Jeff Ponder is the host of Let’s Go Blues Radio, the original St. Louis Blues hockey podcast. You can hear his ramblings weekly at letsgoblues.com/radio or wherever you get podcasts.
There wasn’t a dry eye inside Kiel Center the evening the St. Louis Blues honored Monday Night Miracle hero Doug Wickenheiser.
The day was Jan. 21, 1999. The Blues were returning from a five-game road trip to battle the Toronto Maple Leafs. Just nine days prior, Wickenheiser had succumbed to cancer and this was the first home game on the schedule since his passing.